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@EmanyalpsidPlease be careful with your assumptions. DNA is broken down into nucleoside bases as it's metabolised so a direct DNA to DNA modification is not possible. So far there have been no biological problems with GMO (politically and ethically it's another matter). Yes, long -term effects are not known, so how can you assume that these foods will be "likely" to cause what you mentioned?

No, there is no obligation for you to stay, you can purchase their products if you wish but no one is forcing you to spend money on them. If you pay for their service or product then yes you get access to closed groups as with a lot of businesses. Of course you can take it to extreme levels and 'worship' RSD, which is unfortunate as they try to grow you out of that mentality. I bought The Natural by Max when it first came out, learned a lot about myself and corrected my incorrect view of how attraction works. I was in the closed group and participated in discussions as I do on this forum. I got success and a lot of personal growth and then I focused on other things and left. Similar to many other information products IMO but can attract Machiavellian types more so than a marketing course I guess. Lots of potential to learn how to manipulate girls that can get out of hand if used by someone with an unhealthy approach.

Anybody else experiencing problems connecting to Actualized.org main site or the forum?

@CreamCat lucidity in life would be the equivalent of spiritual awakening. Notice how for most people they are not "lucid" for the whole day, they walk around like zombies. Getting in touch with the actuality of life would be, as you said, living in a lucid dream.

@TheAvatarState yeah my original thought was to get proficient at entering lucidity, then modify my dream's time scape and then do spiritual practice. I.e. over one night, I would do like 1000 hours of meditation in my dream. If that's even possible. Hahaha yes that would be amazing but definitely a distraction ?? @Leon_Mao I used one of the 432 tracks from the YT channel Infinite Waters, he has a few. Not sure if you will find one purely without music, but let me know if you do.

@andyjohnsonman Enlightenment and non dual experiences strike you like lighting bolts. It will happen when you least expect it to and you will know that it's happening. Until you have at least one of these then yes, it is very faith based, so my advice is to hang in there. Once you have a few experiences it will become clear why this work is important. One thing that can help is knowing that meditation and spiritual practices help raise consciousness in general which will help you in all areas of life, not just on the journey to enlightenment.

@TheAvatarState BUT, I can see a benefit of pursuing as many egoic desires as possible in the dream (money,sex,cars etc) in order to get sick of them and transcend the need for them. Some people claim you can manifest whatever you want in a dream which I haven't experienced but if I can go and be a superhero and play god in a dream every night,I think I would be more focused on life purpose and spirituality during the day. Maybe it can help in that respect

@TheAvatarState Yeah, I've heard Lions Mane mushroom and Huperzine A can help induce lucidity so I might try those when I can get my hands on some, but yeah, it's possibly a matter of brain physiology (to help induce lucidity) Yes I've seen the video, I think my backlash came from meditation and not my attempt to lucid dream, as you can make the lucid dreaming an egoic pursuit. See, regarding your last point, I'm on the fence about it. I plan to first of all achieve lucidity consistently, that's the first major hurdle. Then I plan from there I guess, I will need to explore my dreams first before Im able to see what I (as an ego) can actually do there. However (and why I mention ego), it appears as though becoming non dual awareness (/the Self) makes it irrelevant what happens where because it's all just consciousness. Being consciousness in the dream is the same as being consciousness in the "waking" world. So any illusion of personal development or other egoic puruits would be just that - egoic illusions. I have had mystical experiences where I realized that I do not control the body whatsoever, it's all happening through infinite intelligence aka a movie is playing. I assume constant realisation of this will transfer to any other manifestation of consciousness including dreams. I.e. a dream is just another movie playing. But when you wake up into "waking" reality it's easy to see that the dream is just a movie. The real work is recognising that the "waking" reality is exactly the same. Leo puts it really well in his Life is a Dream video

Eggs would be an ok food if they didn't have so much cholesterol in the yolk. Salmon can be ok if it's wild caught. I personally don't eat farmed salmon after I went to a salmon farm. They just swim around in their piss and s**t, all clustered together.

Update: I have been seeing a lot of progress in terms of dream awareness these past few days. My dreams are becoming more and more vivid and the narratives more complex. I feel as through when I'm dreaming, I can "hold more memory" i.e. as I'm dreaming, I can remember where I've been in the dreamscape for longer periods. I think this will be a key later on in becoming lucid as I will have to recognise the inconsistencies and glitches in the dreamscape to realize I'm dreaming. I think this is how we might construction a sense of time and self consistent narrative in the "waking" world. It's like we've been dreaming for a long time and are now able to store more memory and create self consistency. I also noticed how reason and logic is dream specific. Because it contrasts with "waking" reason and logic it's making me notice the relativity of those things and how actually our sense of reason and logic is pretty groundless, we just take it to be "normal" because it's our default position. These are not new insights per se, it's just that they've become glaringly obvious as I experience my dreams for longer and in more detail. Finally, just to add how I did it. Basically, I've been waking up earlier, waiting a minute and then just snoozing.

Would you be willing to share a few more details so we can get a better idea of what you're dealing with?

Seems to be back to normal for me ?

If you're ever feeling down

The effects can happen transiently in a regular person, maybe after a hard day at work, or a lack of sleep or stresses on the mind/body. In a meditator the process is similar but may happen more frequently or with stronger force because with meditation lots of subconscious emotional knots untie which can lead to stress for the body. In both instances, the body reacts under the principle of homeostasis Just see how you feel after an emotionally/physically taxing day. Meditation is not pleasant initially. Once the habit is set though, the new homeostatic set point is made and it becomes easier.

Just rewatching the self-deception videos and remember you mention a new product release in 2019.

Ok, will keep that it mind. Thank you

Probably a sexy witch girlfriend pickup course then...

Quick Update: I seem to have had some sort of ego backlash. After my lucid dream breakthrough, I've started having lots and lots of dreams every night and it's very difficult to remember what happened in order to write it in my dream journal. I think maybe there is a deception mechanism that is trying to confuse my dream awareness and prevent lucidity by bombarding me with multiple dreams at night.

@zambize go for it! I would like to hear your experience. Although don't post it on any mainstream forum otherwise the government will label alcohol as a hallucination inducing psychedelic and ban it ??

Hi all, I will try to make this post as concise as possible and not go off tangent. I usually do not drink at all but I'm spending a couple of months with my family and having a drink once in a while is seen as perfectly normal. We had an especially busy day today with some home construction at home so I had some drinks with my parents when we finished our current renovation project. As the day wound to an end my parents went to watch some TV. I decided that a better use of my time would be to do some spiritual practice. I don't have access to DMT/LSD/Shrooms/MDMA so I decided to do some self inquiry and contemplation under the influence of alcohol. I had about 5 shots in the space of an hour and went outside to sit and contemplate/self-inquire. It was dark outside and I'm quite far from a major city so it's very quite outside, with low light pollution. I was alone with little distraction. When I used to drink in the past it would be to go out to a club, but now I was setting the intention to experience reality as it is while under the influence of alcohol. Basically, I followed the line of inquiry set out in Leo's recent Self-Inquiry video. Also, I tried to experience everything that was happening, but consciously. (I tried to step back and see the experience for what it was, rather than what usually happens when I get drunk, which is going to a club with mates, not transcending the ego or any of that, or any spiritual work). Anyway.... (I'm still a bit drunk so this feels like a bad text that I shouldn't send but onward I go...)...... I had ONE major insight and ONE major visual experience in the last 1-2 hours. - The insight: There are different LAYERS which concern the body-mind. In direct experience I saw that the body is simply a meat puppet. I did not identify with the body at all during this practice. It appears as though the body has 1) instinctive control, which can be overridden with 2) mind/prefrontal cortex control. Explanation: The experience was of, maybe, 8/10 drunkenness (10 being blacking out) - it seemed as though the body was following an instinctual program, and when thoughts arose, the body could be controlled by them. This experience likely occurred because under the influence of alcohol there is an increase in reaction time. I.e. there is a higher resolution between the occurrence of a thought and the reaction to the thought. Basically, my body was feeling floaty, and soft, and happy and it felt good to move my arms and head (classic feelings on drunkenness). Then a thought such as "shake your head" would come into existence. There would be a couple of seconds of delay and then THE BODY WOULD FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION. I believe the influence of alcohol enabled a delay to occur between thought occurrence and body-reaction. It felt as though there were two controllers to the body - the "unconscious" or "non-mind" instinctive reactions and the "thought/mind/conscious" override control. It was like the body was a child and then thought was like the child's parent, telling it what to do, and the child just followed the parent's instruction. But when the parent wasn't looking (no mind), the child just played, and did it's own thing. I got glimpses of pure awareness experiencing thought occurring but it did not reach non-dual levels. I.e. I still identified as the 'creator' of the thoughts, as though "I" was thinking them. You could say I identified with the mind, but not the body. Onto the visual experience: There were a few sources of far-away light such as stars and neighbour's garage lights and things like that (keep in mind this is at night time). There were moments when I would cross my eyes and make everything blurry, but upon doing so, looking at the light sources expanded them. It was like there was an imaginary pathway of light coming from the light source and going into my eye. Focusing on the light source made it look light a dot of light. But, changing the point of focus by 'moving up' the imaginary line, created these expansions of the light source. The profound thing was that in each of these expansions I could see all of this detail. It was like looking at the sun from a point in space. There were moving rays along the surface of the expansion and it looked to me like a whole galaxy could be 'housed' in that ray of light. The 'expansion' looked kind of like an out-of-focus light source (see following picture), but unlike the picture there was a lot of detail to the out-of-focus ray of light. There was so much detail it felt as though I was looking at another galaxy. All in all this was an interesting experience. I've never set the intention of doing spiritual work while drunk. I've experienced Satori before but that only lasted for a short while. I may add more to this, I just feel exhausted from writing it all down.

A thought of a bullet proof vest came into my mind out of nowhere and for no reason and then 10 min later I saw a guy wearing a bullet proof vest. (I don't live in an area where that would be a common occurrence) I wrote a detailed account in my post "Bullet proof vest synchronicity" here on the forum.

@zambize I mean, it would be an interesting variation to the usual drunk night on the town. I may do this again but not soon. It would be damaging to your body's health to do this frequently, so I would not recommend someone use alcohol for habitual spiritual practice. Despite that, I did indeed have a very positive experience. Usually when you're drunk you don't really take the time to be conscious of your experience. Yes it feels good but you sorta just interact with the outside world. Here, I had a lot of time to sit and deeply experience reality unfold. It was actually very fun and also healing to a degree. By becoming conscious of the drunk state, it amplified the relaxation and pleasant body feel. It felt like I was watching my body and mind be playful and childlike and it generated a lot of self love. I have a big shadow built up and low self esteem from childhood trauma. The release of self inhibition which allowed the body to express itself and be playful almost bought me to tears. Even now after I've slept a full 8 hours I feel like a huge weight was just lifted off me. Also those light Ray 'galaxies' almost gave me a glimpse of what infinity was. It was like within that speck of light was the potential for an infinite world to occur. This also made me feel full of live for reality and nature and the universe. All in all it was a great experience

EDIT: this is a better representation of what I saw within each ray of light: It was like you could zoom infinitely deeper into this 'space'

Hi @Paul92 , Let me tell you that everything will be OK. There is no need to jump off a bridge and commit suicide. Let me explain: What you are experiencing is a very common set of feelings that come up when you first come to see how everything is an illusion. It happens to nearly everyone when they start to learn about these things because it shatters their previous belief system. You will likely feel depressed and nihilistic for the next couple of weeks but that is OK. Everything will be OK and there is no need to start loading yourself up with worry. You will be in existential pain but just know that it will ease and things will normalise with time. You've taken the first step in a wonderful journey, but at this point you cannot appreciate what is in store for you. Console yourself. And give yourself time. These thoughts that you are having will subside with time, and then you will be able to take steps in a more positive direction, and you will end up in a better place than now. Everything is OK and we are here for you on the forum if you need us.

Watch Leo's videos which are along the lines of "3 levels of personal development" and "setting up your infrastructure for personal development" Essentially all your personal development will focus on your inner game. By fixing the inner game, the outer game "fixes". HOWEVER, until you become advanced at inner game, you cannot appreciate how fixing inner game will fix your outer game. Hence you feel this way: Here is an example: An enlightened master (we can say mastered inner game) can go and live in a cave and be in bliss and ecstasy (outer game is fixed). A person with an underdeveloped inner game will go around trying to fix outer game facets but will deep down be unhappy and unfulfilled. I.e. a person with underdeveloped inner game will go crazy living in a cave. How do you get around this? Your focus on outer game should be to the extent that it enables you to focus on inner game. -Remove addictions (outer) so you aren't always distracted and can focus on inner work. -Sort out your relationships (i.e. intimate partner) so you aren't needy so that you can focus on inner game without distractions. -Sort yourself out financially so that you have an hour or two to do inner work and aren't worried about how you will pay the bills. -Develop an infrastructure that minimises distractions from inner work (this usually involves minimalism/spartan lifestyle). -etc. etc. etc. Once you do enough inner work you will realize that inner and outer doesn't really matter. It's all one, and they feed into each other. You could say everything become inner work because the outer work is also inner work. You can use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as a guide. The trap is getting stuck in outer game and neglecting the inner game. Focusing on the inner game and neglecting outer game can fix the outer game, BUT, paradoxically, you may need to fix the outer game to realise this.